The novel coronavirus pandemic has spread across 187 countries and territories. Today is the forty-eighth day of India’s nationwide lockdown, which has been extended till May 17. While a massive exercise to repatriate Indians stranded abroad is underway, Railways will be resuming passenger train services from tomorrow. PM Narendra Modi is holding a video conference with all chief ministers.
Confirmed COVID-19 cases in India stand at 67,152. The death toll from the outbreak in India is at 2,200. Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Delhi have reported the highest number of cases.
Globally, there have been over 41 lakh confirmed cases of COVID-19. At least 2.82 lakh people have died so far. The United States, Spain, UK, Italy, Russia and France are the most-affected countries. Catch the latest updates here:
I (PM Modi) request you all to share with me by May 15, a broad strategy on how each one of you would want to deal with lockdown regime in your particular states. I want states to make a blueprint on how to deal with various nuances during and after gradual easing of lockdown.
PM said that this understanding of the spread of COVID-19will help the country in having a focused fight against it. “And therefore, we can now further focus our strategy in this battle against coronavirus, as should be the case," the prime minister said.
All 5 Air India pilots who had tested positive for COVID-19earlier, have now been found negative in the retest, reports news agency ANI.
We will agree with whatever decision the Central Government takes on lockdown but our advice is to extend the lockdown till the end of May.
With 268 new cases, COVID-19tally soars to 6,086 in Ahmedabad; 19 more deaths take toll to 400, reports news agency PTI.
174 new cases of COVID-19and 5 deaths have been reported in Rajasthan today, taking the total number of cases anddeaths to 3,988 and113, respectively. Number of active cases in the state stands at 1,551.
79 new Coronaviruspositive cases reported in Telangana today; the total number of positive cases in the state is 1,275 including 444 active cases, 801 cured/discharged and 30 deaths.
Maharashtra has reported 1,230 new cases of coronavirus and 36 deaths. State tally now at 23,401 and deaths due to the virus at 868.
5 deaths and 124 new COVID-19 cases reported in West Bengal today, taking the total number of positive cases in the state to 2,063.
Total 161 COVID-19 positive cases have been reported in Jharkhand till date, of which 80 are active cases and 78 are recovered/discharged case.
In the last 24 hours, 347 new cases of COVID-19have been reported in Gujarat. The total number of cases stands at 8,542 now, including 2,780 cured/discharged cases and 513 deaths.
